An all-around healthy diet is best for any exercise routine, but cardiovascular exercise requires a balance of special nutrients. If you get cardiovascular exercise regularly, here’s how to fuel up.
Cardio exercises like walking, running and biking require energy from both carbohydrates and fat. Carbohydrates are the body’s No. 1 go-to...
The holiday shopping sprint is on and fitness gadgets are everywhere, but don’t forget about the basic -- and reasonably priced -- options.
Here are 10 ideas for stuff that often can be purchased for $25 or less:
1. Yoga mat on which to stretch, strengthen and chill.
2. Stretch bands to...
Faster. Stronger. Longer. This triumverate of adjectives is the holy grail of running, and training plans abound to help runners seeking to improve their mile splits, power up a hill and go farther than before.
But might the solution lie in something as simple as a hashtag?
In the December issue of Runner’s World, writer and avid...
Expect to pick up more than just weights if you enlist in Thank Dog! Bootcamp, a fitness and obedience program that started up this month in an Arlington, Va., park.
“We clean up our poop. It’s one of the rules of class,” says owner and personal trainer Karen Krieg, who’d been looking for a way to merge her two loves: fitness and dogs....
No one has his eye more on the tennis ball than Murphy Jensen, former Tennis Channel star and coach of the Washington Kastles professional tennis team — of which Serena and Vanessa Williams are members.
Here are some of his tennis-playing pointers:
• Play with a resistance band
Before getting their rackets...
